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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 0, 1980.

Commonwealth comment No. 4:

WHAT DO INDIA AND PAKISTAN PEEL TODAY?

India is in the Common-

wealth solely for her own be-

nelit. It is mainly a business

By Alwyn Tebbit

Good Morning

So

carried

cano

levin tu lo bo class to get a job in a British Arm. around at Colombo in a

chalk. It is fell the Briton can alwayn

Gad, Rir, sayn Myrtle's be trusted, will always pay his

grandfather, when I came debts and in the only foreigner East first wo had nothing lesy Rwho understands Indin, jer Ve

out

per cent, di India's exports their point that the rdkjor énùso twell. ~norer the lower figure, Parlimentary system' are the middle of a political specchina

deal. Britain and the rest of, or Europeans, have much sym There are about 100,000,000 the Commonwealth take 61 pathy for Britain, in her present mulle

The British way of life (pre-thon a sedan chair, light, as it seems obvious from The middle classes earn be- Welfare State), Bellish Justicey C20 week-le British education, and the British Sentiment does not come info of her trouble in her Wellnesnofortif the matter, but if it did India State," whless causes considere They five ons or up-remed den mestels tos lib future India. would leave the Common resentment, particularly Britain's housed (with familles averaging wealth when she becomes a enormous food subsidies and have childrch)

which health service. Republic on January 20.

are held

With India there are, under.esponsible for devaluation. W the tower classes blit

the Company CHINA MAIL standably, none of the invisible ties, racial or family, which bind Canada, Australia and New Zen- land to Britain.

LTD.

BIRTH

India's attitude in that Brita exploited the country for as long as possible and then got out when the pickings became Bearce. Con- sequently India has no feeling of COWIE To dean and John Cowie being part of the Empire the iden unpopular and is avoided As much as possible.

o Frth January at Kowloon Hospital a son,

"Cotton wool"

ether

།

دنا

Je

Ceritral

When a bomb went off in the

American town, the audience stook it for a comiņa,

"Chiang Kai-shek's funds are running out fns)."

It didn't say where they were running out to.

not

0

And cat

THEY LIKE BRITONS Pakistan, like India, 1s in the Che have litle or ho

has 110 moro sentimental out there we expensive Utopia dve every peliny they can for Commonwealth for her own good,

taxes could the weddings of their childron, Bhe ticas, it is thought,

which

anything from £750 reasons for continuing her mem- be reduced and the people would

And out in the

nali be forer to work harder to get to £5,000 and up. It is tilimathu bership than has Indlu, and does

economic and strategic crapture was stirring, not even a that 80 per cent. of the inledle so for

correspondent. nows agency he money to live.

class, of whom there up over reasons.

As une

the world's

Judging by our readers' letters, 340,000,000 are in debt. It is asked why, as nu

countries (and the largest Mus- not everyone thinks that writer Low standard Nuch has

lim State), Pakistan should rank for news agencies should pett all

Uic country.in the world

classe

done the high

among In the upper

world's their despatches without leaving In-wonders.

the seclusion of their hotel rooms. food subsidies, should the Bet-

Europians and the wentthy fish people be "wrappest in cut-

£1,800 Starting from scratch two ton won!" to such on extent? But man, with saluries from

"Have your bees done well thin Briton years ago, with not even oflees ef 13 the

The upwards To the average If these basic facts were civa”-

people ly understood in Britain it would it that way.

annumeeing in India, Britain's standard to house the Government in year, Junes?"

"Pretty well. They haven't of thing evanes so low down the Karachi. the capital, Pakistan is, go a long way towards explaining they do or they would not scam-

they've India's stand on the"quéštlan" of sistently vote to the Govertinen

seule that at as frightening to con. tha finnaciul position not to de-given much honey, but

value her currency, AID TO ASIA

tha

to il template having

ating my mother-in-law twice." return home. the sterling balances, which many in by-elections then

Pakistan ku' How me up of must auf usk fil Most men rat in one day as much

the North West Frontier whole

"Waldist Party clinches clear President Truman's annual pic consider one of the con-ight, lat they

Etret tributory causes of Britain's pre- | kympathy. tur

Or

en-operation.

work's allons

Province, Baluchistan. part of lend In Ept elections four Message in Congress has had sent uncial trouble.

Icom

would fur in Uritain. other countless the matter

the Punjab, and, 1,000 miles! killed. India accumulated - vast

Bu- In Throny India may be Bons of buying British good, if goota to share the headlines with

during the war, intinly by sup- of the saine quality can be bought pet to be anti-British, but in way to

Assam. The tilln the formus controversy over

British Army with me plying the

other gondiis practice she more chengly *Wand's Ta van

a pity, br-

food and clothes, and by using

Fa been. She disliked Betish nd at all Taiwan is a

her factories to turn out military

In India there a Three diminitiation, but the Briton a question supplies. Briisin now owes India storm in a tea cup

about poop0.000 (on her own tinet living stature a little more or a filtle Jess | estimation:) and it is thin súm that ! „bout £20 a year, live in havela | foretiner. 1 sufl Der ambition.

The lower classes. action that island where Mr. Churchill and the Americans and eat a anful of grain a day of many of as Hooge was one of the say should be scaled down by imant important even deliver-presepting ludia with a bill for fed in pracetime

It was a re-

cord of areat things done and of great things that are to be

Turk

will ne Welt

Stute

who

れいし

mind never

11

Sind,

the East, u

the two parts of the makes administrationa

Infla, particularly the Scot, has cult wayn always been the most popular

the bidlan

Parliament

By

“Windrush"

middle

rensonableness | that the publk as a whole could never achieve.

The old debating hall of ac effectiveness and House of Commons was burn ed out on May 10, 1941 by Ge man incendiary bombs. It ha 30 the just been announced that the re-built chamber will be ready

part of between country

you mean to say the other

didn't

kill even parties

Bal

龟

very di-many?

Dry subject.

No devaluation

Although they did not get all they wanted, the Pakistanis did The very well out of the deal.

of Indla gave

them partition 72 per cent of the jute-growing best cotton-growing areas, the areas and the best of the when Frog.

We have live peas at our home And now 1 really think

Two of them would work quite

well

If only we had ink.

the

The Dogs and Cute Bill pussed

at Legeo without into law threatened rain of criticism.

-Just

Little abbreviation than was netpally from printed jute importa for the year from report:

in

П

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contemporary

11 is the jute of East Pakistan that has enabled the country to avoid devaluation.

Britain's Pakistan July, 1918, to June, 1948, were The Rev. Fr. A. Rigan wh

The 40,420,140.

next bigger lett H.K. for Italy lust yr., bas Pretr of the ilems were raw cotton, £3,401, retd 10. K. 500, and ten, 13,040.473,

Pontel, Inst. of Forn, Myans, and Pakistan's total exports 10 has assumed chgo of St. Mgt.

were £13,341,030, while Cheh. Hpy. Vly Britain her

Britain over unports from he same period were £27,819,- 135.

saving her from the Japanese.

Everything that Britain exports to

machinery, India mainly vehicles, chemicals and electrical goods, averaging £11,500,000 month--is an "unrequited export." Congress cheered the Pre-

Brita gets no money; waly a dent to the echo when he book quiry is made la ponde referred to the great danger and the sterling balances are e- ducer a little. But Igdia exports that had been overcome in

£8,000,000 worth of goods to Europe and the Mediter

Hy the institution of perila- Britain every month-largely icu,

mentary questions they are vigi- EXTERN The danger of a cul-jute, tobacco and oilseeds--and

kunt expose all inproper ex- layer there under totalitarian for this she is credited.

balance drops very slowly.

ercise of power by the govern- pe sure has receded Today,

At The

the saine tline, On top of this Britain, as Corp-| by autum and M. Troman, the free

monwealth banker, has to And The London pre luspect partlamentury system is so the dollars india wants for her od 11. people of the world have new

There have been descrip- trived that paumentary citi from America and

of the improved demistieselsan seldom

frustrates proper vigor, new hope for the cause imports

if the cabinet pos. Canudo

Thousands of pui holes once been government The first half of ..t

u fem peare

bored in

The the of water

proper amount the century had been the most

prevent echo.

vigour. For in the lust resort the piece goods, valued at 0,743,106.

for although Pakistan has the library. bulent and eventful in re-

majority government having о There have been accounts.

best cotton-growing areas in the House of Cominons, can the seconding

the gifts sent by the Dominious. Forded history,

Smith has virtually no mills with which "I wonder why Mr. by its always override criticism Austrálin, for example, made th

tu Lurn the row half mised to be "decisive

lways brings her knitting to our new Speaker's Chair

inajority vote.

cloth,

meetings. in the history of man on this planet

4" pro-

Unless the sterling balanggs are cut out or very much luced Britain will be virtually export- "free" goods to India for many yaprs to come.

news was

that it

One of the disturbing items of very proved hard to find the one carvers to carry out the decoration of the stone work. The art of stone- carving

men has to be called iut of pre

tirement.

Some people i miget But i was decided to rebuild the new House of Commons almost exact

merat

Britoids largest sidde

Pakistan to

husband readi

A

Jeft her woman because he constantly export-thrillers Instead of talking to her. hla She got tired of Anding

forward in the body slumped

cotton was

sho 16

cotton int

•

"It gives her sum thing to think about while she talks."

India's ambition

Not very distinguished Pakistan's trading deficht with India knows that her sterling balances carppt last for ever, and

The Parliament whose life in Britain is balanced by her share The President pledged that her ambition is quickly to Become the United States world con-

erally regartfed us having been were also the lending industrial nution la

now drawing to its eng is gen-of the sterling balances, which partitioned with the country

und carrying on a friendly "coll distingue Imur economic and military Asia. and be in a position where

une, by not Zery 1 being handunst in

with

Compared some of

thewar with Alghanistan. 114

with Britain. she not only does not sport aid for the free nations in the anything from Britain. Anterica modern England as a luxury

Omarlson

But Pakistan do a good deal predecessors. At the general elee-standard of living for Pakistanki truggle against the threat of

o any other Western country, but

The now State has not of thinking about Britons. Fifty- tion of 1945 a very large number is low. Communist aggression and can oust them completely in the

of members were elected who had yet hart time to build up any sort four of the latter hold important not bul in the House before of welfare organisation, and thern posts in the Government, and appealed for the implementa trade of this pact of the world.

Although India now imports

There was thus a certain brea is a serious shortage of trained there are about 400 British tion of his "Point

large quantities of British cods.

with ale tradition. Moreover the doctors, nurses and teachers.

omeers in the Pakistan fighting forces. The heads of the thres ramme, particularly in the she does not want them. She has

Labour Party had a programme, Friendly attitude

Services are British. The majority Far East. In urging an in- to have them at the moment bey on the lines of the old. Is f

time of Sir Christopher Wien a large majority, and a mondate

Although Pakistanis eru slightly of Pakistanis like them, respect It was ereasing flow of technical as- cause her own industries cannot

from the people,

envious of Britain's Welfare State, them and trust them, and will

Most- sistance and capital invest-produce all the goods she seeds, greatest of all British architects

are extremely critical of be sorry to see them go. but the moment any industry re. It had bice been proposed to reinterested in pushing the pro-

what they call the "Gestapo

will have left by the end of 1950. ment to under-developed reports that it is in a position to child the thon Parliament house gramme through than in debate, th

The role of the Labour back Rule" needed to achieve it. Very grew un mulcent plan.

It she is treated sympathiette- tens, the President said that supply, if india wants, import of

most ally by Britain, and if particular conalter even the lawn carried out? machinery

pushing ever before. If the ideals of put on them to put them beyond this plan, have been

is the

through. Yet in spite of all this, Utopiah Welfare State, worth the case is taken not to refer to the

many in-pand and if she

almost as an appendage freedom and representallye gov. the reach of ordinary people.

Members that ¿ädd · to

a kus it la marzable how the political cost of giving up so

is not Bilge cannot retallate because rifition M erument are to prevall in lifese

ignored altogether when the sub- with Pakistan, his almost a have their debates in a chamber life of the present government dividual liberties

altitudo Pakistan's

towards continent is referred to (a habit Britons is friendly, which is very common among Britain sible like that which Gladstone couident and full of zeni.

and, Disraeli made famous. after years, it behaving in its Britain and

but there is no feeling anywhere writers and politicians in Britain). Indians steking lines. Indeed, re more ditulinics with Parilumem very

Engalith

is much like other governments in of being a member of the British Pakistan can remain a good Commonwealth family." Pakis friend and ally of Britain and through passing

the Tevulu- past

which have spent their tanks feel more Kinship with the Commonwealth, a force it reveals its dissensions; crypt and the other Muslim coun Russia is very near, but Pak-

·Communist-fred be to an unnatural extent the

are also much too occupied in and intends to remain that way victim of mischance.

up their own State,inless she 'feels, she is being Will Parliament survive in the building

Tomorrow's article. blem, enthusiastically joining in

in this

"Is more essential now than those goods la'banred, or a tax which Sijil &xy could not bencher was to be part of the tow

for

arcas and particularly in the gas monopals of jute, and disc which "looked as hearly a píos - has run true to type. It came in. done in Britain."

Far East, that their people ex- perience in their own lives the supplies 150 tea which benefits of scientiae and econo- } critics.

mic advance. This progrname

will require the movement of

Jarge amounts of capital from

industrial nations. and parti-

Few in India, either

which

Now

"been to

cularly from the United States heir defeats in the West, do than the continuing vidity it bas lost its grip. It seems to tries of the Middle East. Thayistan is almost

developed areas of the world."

Almbat

of the tradition of she is, for the strong Govern- past is

questioned and Recent world events, added ment Mr. Truman, made prompt weakened Congress Party and exception.

to productive uses in' under | India iġokę more solid than viery and exilure? Probably I will. It worrying about the Kashmir pro- neglected by the West. -.

is the

the Commons to hear the

only

MACAU

there rests upon q ca paraultidie "Tormonvenient to nearly all the force the new sport of "India+balling," | soriós,'entii deal with. Australia.

in public life. The action imperative. This pro-a duncult economic position. have not been ceriously criticised. -A fow weeks ago Barlament gramme "is in the interest of The Indian Communist Party was prorogued with the ancient city como ir tayyor sce- all peoples and it has nothing itself is in a state of Internal ceremonial of "black rod" felch-11t will come it a party or scc- of a party' 'scas" no way of in common with either the old crisis, but still seems to be the ingt

hent but tools that it has co Imperialism of the fast cen- accepted leader of Commun. King's speech in the House of thing a majority in parlli- Lords. All Thend conventions much support in the country thas fury or the new Imperialism ism in Burma and certain might scom to be ilmc-wasting it could csablish its power | of the Communists. This, other parts of South-East in our age of utility. But nobody other ways than by the legal and too, was resoundingly cheer-Asin.

Has urged that the ceremony of reposing on a parilamentary ed. It is now the turn of Asig The Communists are divid, should be cut out.

: Any such attempt

would. to receive the same, recupered, too, in Burma, but retain

tremendoushock to subtle ative aid that saved Europe. their separate regime in the It should of course be under- opinion, it would wa fought. An In this, differ as they may centre of the country, and stood that, whatever the legal unconstitutional assumption of in details here and there, the while the Burma Government, theory Parliament is not really power would probably be met by United States and Common-insists on fighting the Kure broad Ines of the political life to be hoped that the strength of sovereign"in Great Britain. Tus forectul opposition. It is greatly

Not really sovereign |

nott

causo

the country are determined parliamentary institutions i

wealth Governments have as well there- seems no im- och by papiamentary debate neverejüt" tq, tiq"-test in such a

Rolection.

Morgenbrüswer ultetin "dramatię" way, lea

of 40 60

of its as by'

fala not so mirkli.

long-sighted policy in commediate prospect mon. The overriding in-carly restoration terest of the Commonwealth authority. In Siam an uneasyAt W panerul at the Colombo Conference, stability

with

FINLAND WORRIED

"Helsinki, January 4.

·Fears" that;Soviet Russla | may terminate: her military assistance and friendship pact with Finland werp expressed

lar members

ers of parliament as we are told, is embodied in glorüme and

but press a preference that the affair the question whether Asia as it is a cop

ably of the country should be carried

on by it's on ond party rather than by: a whole is going to become a yields tojë

The day to day affairs, Communist Continent... Cer- best. TRIM,

are deckled not tainly it is not going to be slons have begun among the much by the temper of Parilu- made, secure foy, free, de Reds in Malaya, but the ment as by the pressure upon mocracy by the mere flourial- jungle war goes on creating a the government of variout

organised bodies,such, us ing of arms or trumpets financial incubus and holding true unions, the professional as There must be a much more up immense plans for social sociations, the Federation of Bri- positive policy that will re- and educational advance and fish Industries and so du, Fall-in political circles here today. Awalted anxiolis is the first move the economic causes toat, ull-round development. Even tles in Grdut Britain is really cuntant between the Moderate materially help Communism in Indoricsia, where the issue struggle more or less hidden, be-géclat Democrat Cefarathont and

Wieni illude of corporations Rusin's Minister hura. to spread. Even is not of national, independence has and

tions

Kepada Superindtion of the pact would easy, for it is hard indeed to go complete a solution, fight-

fleas Parliament duc reinforce Soviet Russ protest help those who reject that ing has already begun with play. Spart. Its füychiçin; lo Tliland that the "It"harbouring kind of love her 300 war criminals in Blaen 42 help, not because they don't the malcontenta,

ernment and electorate. the peace treaty, peffus-R écause of 15 But though, the dangers aro

hernoby

plate the

Lideologie

are not

day, who

ope to- ties of meeting and

about |·ing",them. Where

fit, however, scent! thoy, used, it must be met

fora help was given.. force, hijab in Eur present the position is healing powers of

China has passed afd on à generous Communists, a be brought to bear

lover

vilh

which deals direct=* Accusations of such "breaches" Vucopto, without the have four" made reguldri”: over sofed perikunskoj (6B) and Raw Hantu link he Ell- FR Talther

| nish Communista Praktand

Rubin, he wapupst reaching

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fluence the "rövër

Hueber Ay Tinlönd's, Communist Minia,

on the 600-|Ken" in-kioscow rullad to sand bla

télő? Gövähmont "thol'full text of tho} Tire To Relan proizet, la spécial courier can in- has been sent to Moscow to fetch,

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